Positioning device for elements of heating components, method for the operation and use thereof

ABSTRACT

Heating components with stored media, such as fluid reservoirs, accumulating heat exchangers, or accumulators are embodied in such a way that at least one element of the heating component can be locally modified in order to regulate and/or control and/or to monitor and/or measure i.e. can be positioned, placed or the location thereof can be modified. Accordingly multiplicity of use or a saving in the amount of heating components can be achieved in one of the following functions of the heating component: production of a by-pass, media mixture, provision at the right temperature, interconnection of media processes and/or reverse processes, interconnection of at least one operating device, distribution, separating function, enabling loading and provision and ensuring other functions by means of a similar or multiple-use device, thereby resulting in increased efficiency for heating systems and promoting regenerative production of energy.

CROSS-REFERENCE TO RELATED APPLICATION

This is a continuing application, under 35 U.S.C. § 120, of copendinginternational application No. PCT/EP2003/012799, filed Nov. 15, 2003,which designated the United States; this application also claims thepriority, under 35 U.S.C. § 119, of German patent application No. 102 54728.9, filed Nov. 16, 2002; the prior applications are herewithincorporated by reference in their entirety.

BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION Field of the Invention

The invention relates to heating components with a stored media, such asfluid storage reservoirs, storage heat exchangers or storage reservoirs.

For stratifying storage reservoirs in heating systems, the general stateof the art discloses layer charging devices which, use differences indensity, to introduce water into the layer with the same temperature asthe water supplied. This has the advantage that the time taken toprovide the layers on standby is reduced, which improves the use ofsolar heat production. However, with such devices drawing fromselectable layers cannot take place. Furthermore, the storage layersmust be constructed from the bottom up if the storage reservoir containsa layer with the same temperature, which may occur in particular in thecase of long-term storage.

There is also a known layer charging device in the case of which theorifice of a supply line is pivotable, so that layers can likewise becharged. Since storage reservoirs are usually much higher than they arewide, it is not always the case that all the layers are reached by thepivoting. Furthermore, in the case of storage reservoirs that aresubjected to pressure, the drive for the pivoting can only be fittedwith great expenditure, since lead-throughs for adjusting devices haveto be of a complex configuration.

SUMMARY OF THE INVENTION

It is accordingly an object of the invention to provide a positioningdevice for elements of heating components, a method for the operationand use thereof which overcome the above-mentioned disadvantages of theprior art devices and methods of this general type, with which thecharging and provision on standby and further functions can be performedwith a similar or multiple-use device, and the cost-effectiveness isincreased. What is more, it is intended that these devices can act indifferent media, so that versatile use is obtained.

With the foregoing and other objects in view there is provided, inaccordance with the invention, a heating component with stored media.The heating component has a container containing a medium, and at leastone relocatable element being relocatable independently of a density ofthe medium in the container. The relocatable element provided for a heatexchange inside the heating component, without a heat exchanger or witha heat exchanger in a separate area, or outside the heating component.The medium can be a storage medium or a heat transfer medium.

According to the invention, the object is achieved by at least oneelement of the heating component being relocatable, such as that it canbe positioned, can be placed or changed in its position, for the purposeof intervention for effecting closed-loop and/or open-loop control,and/or for monitoring and/or measuring purposes.

The object is further achieved by at least one of the followingfunctions being performed in the heating component: production of abypass, media mixing, provision on standby at an appropriatetemperature, interconnection of media flows and/or returns,interconnection of at least one operating device, and a distribution ora diverting function.

The invention also relates to a use of devices of the heating componentsin the form that they are used for interventions effecting closed-loopor open-loop control in heating systems, such as for interconnection ofmedia exchange systems or charging and provision-on-standby devices.

The interconnecting of media exchange systems may advantageously servefor the use of low temperature levels, for the distribution of heat fromsources and sinks and/or for the multiple use of operating devices of aheating system, in that for example exchange systems are switched to apump and/or control device with the aid of the relocatability.Furthermore, temperatures of media, rooms or buildings can be controlledin this way.

Charging and provision-on-standby devices are used for providing mediaon standby at an appropriate temperature, for charging temperaturelevels, for providing amounts of heat on standby, mixing temperaturelevels, controlling the heat transfer, controlling the media exchange orheat transport within the heating component. This makes it possible incomparison with the prior art to dispense with external interconnectionwith valves, pumps, mixers or controlling devices. In the case of mixingwith charging and provision-on-standby devices, by contrast, externalmixers are only used for mixing if temperature levels are not availablein the storage heat exchanger, saving on temperature levels, wherebyheat produced regeneratively is less expensive. Furthermore, therelocatability of elements can also be used for measuring thetemperature level of storage reservoirs and storage heat exchangers andalso for controlling safety mechanisms. For example, the preferentialdirection of a relocatable element allows frost-protecting mechanisms tobe initiated by gravitational forces or upward-lifting forces in the endposition.

Other features which are considered as characteristic for the inventionare set forth in the appended claims.

Although the invention is illustrated and described herein as embodiedin a positioning device for elements of heating components, a method forthe operation and use thereof, it is nevertheless not intended to belimited to the details shown, since various modifications and structuralchanges may be made therein without departing from the spirit of theinvention and within the scope and range of equivalents of the claims.

The construction and method of operation of the invention, however,together with additional objects and advantages thereof will be bestunderstood from the following description of specific embodiments whenread in connection with the accompanying drawings.

BRIEF DESCRIPTION OF THE DRAWINGS

FIG. 1 is diagrammatic, sectional view of a storage heat exchangershowing relocatable elements in the storage heat exchanger;

FIG. 2 is a diagrammatic, sectional view of the storage heat exchangershowing relocatability in an air medium; and

FIG. 3 is a diagrammatic, illustration showing relocatability withmatrix joining.

DESCRIPTION OF THE PREFERRED EMBODIMENTS

Referring now to the figures of the drawing in detail and first,particularly, to FIG. 1 thereof, there is shown a fluid storage heatexchanger containing a fluid 22. In the storage heat exchanger there arecharging and provision-on-standby devices 1, 2, 3, 4 that can be movedor positioned in the heat exchange. The charging andprovision-on-standby device 2, 4 is intended for a fluid exchange, whilethe charging and provision-on-standby device 1, 3 is intended to bepositioned in an exchanging area 19 of the storage heat exchanger. Theexchanging area 19 is supplied with a heat transfer fluid for acontrolled heat exchange from an interior of the storage heat exchanger.The special advantage of the exchanging area 19 is that no additionalcirculating energy is necessary for the heat exchange. However, with thecharging and provision-on-standby device 1, 3 there arises the problemthat the exchange of the medium takes place in such a way that it isdriven by the heat exchange, as a result of which the flow cannot beused for the relocatability.

In principle, the charging and provision-on-standby devices 1, 2, 3, 4contain the same elements. To be specific, a flexible line 5 from thesupply line or discharge line 16, 18, 15, 17 to a joining element 53 inwhich the fluid is conducted. The joining elements 53 are conicallyconfigured here, so that the upper joining element 2 can be insertedinto the lower joining element 4, and in this way a bypass can beproduced. The joining element contains a gas space 6, a baffle plate 7,an arresting magnet 9 and a sensor 8. With the aid of the gas space 6,the loading and allocating 2, 4, 1, 3 is balanced in such a way that ithas a preferential direction of movement as a result of gravitationalforces or as a result of upward lift. If the direction of flow takesplace from top to bottom, the charging device 2 must have a preferentialdirection of upward lift, since the downward movement takes place withthe flow and with the aid of the baffle plate 7. In the case of thecharging device 4, the preferential direction must likewise be upward,i.e. take place with the upward lift, since here, too, the flow providesthe downward positioning of the device 4. If, conversely, thethrough-flow takes place from bottom to top, the charging andprovision-on-standby devices 2, 4 are balanced with a downwardpreferential direction, the gravitational force providing the downwardpositioning of the devices. With the aid of the fitted electromagnets 9,the charging and provision-on-standby device can be arrested in aposition, and in this way the upward-lifting or downward-drifting orflow forces can be rendered ineffective. In the case of the exemplaryembodiment, the arresting takes place on the wall of the storage heatexchanger. The determination of the position takes place with the sensor8, which determines for example the temperature in the storage heatexchanger or the position-dependent pressure, and as a result thearresting magnet 9 is controlled correspondingly.

The charging and provision-on-standby device 1, 3 is constructed withthe difference in comparison to the charging and provision-on-standbydevice 2, 4 in that the flow cannot be used as a drive for a positioningdirection. This problem is solved by the loading and allocating devices1, 3 being coupled. In the case of this exemplary embodiment, they arecoupled to final control elements 20, 21 for example cable pulls, byelectromagnets 11, 13, these being separated and guided in amagnetically nonconducting tube 12 and being able to act in anentraining manner on magnetically conducting elements 10, 14. Manualactuating elements or motor drives can be connected to the final controlelements 20, 21. Coupling to other charging and provision-on-standbydevices that are driven by flow and preferential movement is alsoadvantageous. Here, however, it must also be possible for decoupling totake place if the driven charging and provision-on-standby device is tobe positioned alone and there is no connection.

The relocatability or moving of the charging and provision-on-standbydevice may take place along a guide in the storage heat exchanger, theguide predetermining the path of the relocatable element. The path isadvantageously provided with a slope, so that upward-lifting ordownward-drifting forces can act. The guidance may take place by thegravitational force or mechanically by guiding rods or tubes or cablesor wires. Apart from realizing movements along a path, joining elementscan also be joined together by the guide.

Such charging and provision-on-standby devices have the advantage thatthey not only introduce the fed-in fluid into the layer which has thesame temperature as the fluid supplied, but also into every otherdesired temperature-level layer. Furthermore, a layer that can beselected as desired in terms of thickness and height can be charged ordischarged. Furthermore, an exactly defined temperature can be providedfor heat generators and heat consumers and/or fed back with an exactlydefined temperature. Furthermore, if temperatures are not available, forexample if the storage heat exchanger is fully charged, and the desiredtemperature for heating or service water is below the storage heatexchanger temperatures, or the solar collector return produces in returna temperature which lies below the storage heat exchanger temperatures,the joining elements in the storage heat exchanger are joined together,so that the desired temperatures are controlled under open-loop orclosed-loop control by positioning the joining elements, and as a resultfluid from the circulating system and the storage reservoirs can bemixed. Here, the conical joining elements have the effect that fluidfrom the storage reservoir and from the return is fed into the flow. Theposition of the joining elements in relation to one another has theeffect that the opening to the storage fluid is changed, so that themixing ratio can be controlled by the positioning.

In comparison with the known mixing valves, the proposed device has theadvantage that only temperatures which are really needed can be drawnfrom the storage heat exchanger. As a result, unnecessary temperaturereductions and circulating losses are avoided, such as the removal offluid from the storage reservoir and immediate feeding back through themixing valve. As a result, the ability to provide regenerative energy onstandby is improved, which further improves the efficiency of solarsystems. Furthermore, the multiple function of the charging andprovision-on-standby devices, such as provision on standby at anappropriate temperature and/or feeding back at an appropriatetemperature, producing defined layers, maintaining layers, measuring thestorage heat exchanger, monitoring the storage heat exchanger orcontrolling room temperatures, provides good cost-effectiveness, so thatthese functions can be applied to circulating systems where this haspreviously taken place rarely or not at all, such as for example solarcollector circulating systems or preheating circulating systems. In thisway, new functions, such as loss monitoring or minimization of solarcollectors, are also possible cost-effectively.

FIG. 2 shows charging and provision-on-standby devices 27, 34, 28, 35for a gas medium, such as air. They can be constructed and operated inprecisely the same way as those for fluid, with the differences statedbelow. The balancing of the device for drifting in a preferentialdirection must take place with a different gas filling, for examplehydrogen, and with a greater volume of the suspended body, so that thejoining element can be suspended in air. The use of lighter materialsfacilitates the drifting capability, for example sheet materials for theflexible connection and for the joining element. The balancing may alsobe performed, however, with balancing counterweights, which is also madepossible by the easy accessibility of the air conduction. Of course, notfluid but air is passed through the supply and discharge channels 23,24, 36, 37 and through the flexible line to the joining element and viathe walls of the storage heat exchanger. The baffle elements for theflow drive must be somewhat larger, since air does not provide thekinetic energy to the relocatable joining elements on account of thesmaller mass.

A significant problem with charging and provision-on-standby devices forair is that instances of air convection can take place more readily inair channels due to leakages and losses at the insulations, which makesthe stratification of the storage more unstable and, over a prolongedtime, destroys it. This problem is solved by the air channels 30, 31,32, 33 being made narrow, so that no great rolls of air can be produced.Furthermore, the subdivision of the air channel into verticallyseparated segments 29 prevents the undesired air convection.

The arrangement of the relocatable joining elements 27, 34, 28, 35 atthe outer edges of the air channels 25, 26 has the effect that the airflows through the segments which are enclosed by the two joiningelements.

As a result, the charging and provision-on-standby devices for airbehave in precisely the same way as those for fluid and can perform thesame functions. With the exception that joining together of the joiningelements must take place by use of at least one segment. Such a segmentmay also be insulated with respect to the heat exchange to the storageheat exchanger.

The charging and provision-on-standby device for air can perform notonly the functions of the device for fluid but also that of controllingthe room temperature while at the same time preserving the temperaturelevel of the layers in the storage heat exchanger. This also solves theproblem that relatively expensive solar collectors would have to be usedfor charging large storage heat exchangers with regenerative energy,where air collectors are sufficient for preheating. The charging andprovision-on-standby device is suitable for example for charging solarair collectors or for heat recovery or cooling with air, while thestratification is retained or produced. This allows the primary energydemand to be lowered further and more regenerative energy to beproduced, since air systems last longer, are more simple and inexpensiveand can be used for the preheating of the storage heat exchanger, andfluid solar collectors produce the higher required temperature level.

Furthermore, such air charging and provision-on-standby devices maketemperature spaces, i.e. spaces or rooms with different temperaturelevels, possible in solid-substance storage reservoirs, which extendsthe heat storage of regenerative energy.

FIG. 3 represents a storage heat exchanger with the matrix joining ofcharging and provision-on-standby devices 39, 40, 41, 49, 50, 51, itbeing possible for a number of such devices to be joined to one anotheras desired. The channels 42, 43, 44, 46, 47, 48 of the joining elements39, 40, 41, 49, 50, 51 are arranged in the form of a matrix and with aslope. At the points of intersection of the channels, the joiningelements can be brought together, so that circulating systems can beinterconnected with one another. In this example, the upper joiningelements 39, 40, 41 conduct the flows of a return or flow out of theplane of the drawing, while the lower joining elements 49, 50, 51conduct the flows into the plane. If two joining elements meet eachother at the points of intersection, they make the flows merge. Theexact relative positioning is established by a connection which issealed by compliant seals such as silicone rings or brush hairs.Positioning of the joining elements alongside, for instance, makes itpossible for fluid to be partly received or discharged from or into thestorage heat exchanger. By controlling the position, mixing of the fluidis possible in this way for provision on standby at an appropriatetemperature in a circulating system. The exact position of the couplingcan be transferred to the control device by contacts at the points ofintersection, for example by magnetic triggering by a magnet at thejoining element and a magnetic sensor in the channel. The exact joiningposition can also be activated by a pressure sensor, which detects theexact position in height in the storage heat exchanger.

The arrangement of the joining elements so that the flow is deflectedinto the horizontal makes possible on the one hand the coupling and onthe other hand the positioning of the joining elements at any desiredheight in relation to one another. As a result, the connectedcirculating system may be a heat source or sink at the same time, and bythe positioning of the joining elements the lower joining elements isabove the upper joining element or below the upper joining element.

The positioning of the joining elements may take place by drifting andby the flow or by motors, as already described. However, in the case ofhorizontal discharge, the baffle element for the flow drive must befitted in the line upstream of the flow deflection.

The coupling of circulating systems may serve not only for directlyconnecting the solar connector to further storage heat exchangers or forconnecting storage heat exchangers to one another for heat exchange butalso for operating circulating systems with common operating devices,such as a circulating device, filling device, temperature sensor or flowsensor. For this purpose, the operating devices are connected to areturn and flow and, depending on demand, the corresponding circulatingsystem is switched to the operating devices. The storage heat exchangerscan be operated autonomously, so that circulating systems do not have tobe operated simultaneously. However, then the relocating cannot beperformed with the flow but must be performed with motors or by a changein fluid level. The use of common operating devices can be used toreduce costs or to use more expensive pumps with higher levels ofefficiency, so that the operating costs can be lowered.

Heating components with stored media, such as fluid storage reservoirs,storage heat exchangers or storage reservoirs in which elements arerelocatable, accordingly have elements which can be moved, displaced oradjusted and can be brought into and/or kept in a defined location orposition or place.

The relocation of elements in at least one medium, such as gas, forexample air, exhaust gas, inert gas or fluid, for example water 45, 22,service water, cistern water, waste water, cooling fluid, heating fluid,water with frost protecting agent, water with corrosion protectingagents or oil, allows the movement in a wide variety of heatingcomponents. The relocation itself advantageously takes place in storagereservoirs with solid substances, such as sand, gravel or granules; itbeing possible however for driving forces to act with upward lift,downward drift and gravitational forces, in particular in gas-filled orfluid-filled channels in such storage media. The same appliesanalogously to phase change materials and chemical storage substances.It is advantageous that the relocatable element is a charging andprovision-on-standby device 1, 2, 3, 4, 27, 28, 34, 35, such as astandby device, flow conduction or flow deflecting device. This makespossible the targeted charging of temperature spaces according todifferent optimization measures of regenerative heat production and/orheat storage. Furthermore, exactly defined temperature levels can beprovided on standby from the heating system component, so that the heatcontrol is therefore brought about.

The fact that the relocatable element is a heat-exchanging element, forexample a storage heat exchanger, heat exchanger, exchanging area orheat conducting device, allows it to act as a charging andprovision-on-standby device. In this case, the heat-exchanging unit canalso be positioned in such a way that the heat-exchanging surface areacan be changed or switched in the medium. Furthermore, externalexchanging or storing devices can be adapted to a storage reservoir, sothat for example undesired conduction of heat or cold can be preventedby the switching of the heat conduction.

Changing the location of an insulating or conducting partition, such asa curtain, partition or temperature space, is particularly appropriate.This allows for example insulating curtains in the case of storage heatexchangers to be gathered or moved in a way corresponding to therequired amount of heat, as a result of which no additional circulationof media with operating energy is necessary for the heating. Atemperature space is understood as meaning a bounded area of a storageheat transfer medium in a storage reservoir which contains a definedtemperature level and can be charged and discharged with definedtemperature levels (also with a charging and provision-on-standbydevice). This may be realized with insulating partitions, so thatrelocation of such partitions can change the size of the temperaturespace or make it able to be penetrated by charging andprovision-on-standby devices, or make heat exchange or the terminationof heat exchange with the temperature space possible.

The fact that the relocatable element is a relocatable part of theaforementioned devices, such as a sensor 8, arresting device 9, joiningelement 39, 40, 41, 49, 50, 51, final control element 20, 21, drive,float, suspended device 6, baffle elements 7, line 7, coupling element10, 11, 13, 14, channel or valve, allows these parts to be used multiplyfor different charging and provision-on-standby devices. This has theeffect of increasing the cost-effectiveness in the case of relativelycomplex heating components.

The fact that the drive for the relocation takes place according to theinvention with at least one media drive, such as a fan or pump, allowsthe use of existing media flow drives and also the central arrangementand use of the drive for a number of heating components.

Also the fact that the drive for the relocation takes place indirectly,such as by media flow, changing levels of media or coupling 10, 11, 13,14 with respect to relocatable elements, with respect to manualactuating elements or with respect to motor elements, makes theaforementioned advantages possible.

The use of baffle surface areas 7 or baffle bodies for the flow-drivenrelocation allows a low-cost drive of relocatable elements.

By use of the direction of the flow, such as by the fact that thejoining elements of a line or the line can rotate and/or pivot and/ortilt, or in each case a joining element of a number of differentlydirected joining elements is released, the direction of movement of therelocatable element can be determined or changed, so that such elementscan evade obstacles or the relocation can take place without apreferential direction of movement, so that loading and reserveallocation devices can change their direction of flow, whereby they aresuitable for example for heat sources and heat sinks.

In the case of heating systems with media filling devices, it isappropriate that the media level drive takes place from at least oneseparated area 12, which can be changed from the level of the media, andat least one element, such as a float or baffle elements, beingpositioned dependent on the level of the media or the flow created whenthe level of the media is changed.

The production of an area 12 that is separated from the media isparticularly advantageous. This allows the building up of protectedareas which are independent of pressure and independent of media and areadapted to the relocatable elements. The separated areas may be sleeves,tubes or pipes, channels, tanks, containers or vessels.

The filling of the separated area 12 with a medium makes possible, forexample, a gas pressure in the separated area above the heatingcomponent pressure, so that the elements introduced are fluid-protected.

The introduction of fluid into the separated area allows the separatedarea 12 to be flowed through, for example by a circulating system. Thisallows the drive of relocatable elements to take place by the couplingof these flow-driven elements to elements in the heating component.

The fact that relocatable elements are located in the separated area 12allows positioning to be carried out by this method, such as by flow orchanging the level of fluid in the separated area. It is advantageousfor the service life and maintenance of elements that sensitiverelocatable elements, such as those which are water-sensitive,pressure-sensitive or can undergo maintenance, such as sensors,arresting device, drives or final control elements, are located in theseparated area.

With the aid of the balancing of relocatable elements, so that they aresuspended in equilibrium or moved with a defined preferential direction,such as by floats or suspended devices, on the one hand less drivingenergy is required and on the other hand a preferential movement isachieved by use of upward lift, downward drift or gravitational force.Floats and suspended devices can be realized by the gas-filledcontainers 6. However, balancing is also possible with the aid ofcounterweights.

The fact that the preferential direction can be changed, such as byweights which can be attached by coupling, floats which can be changedby upward lift or downward drift or suspended devices which can bechanged by upward lift or downward drift, also allows the drive to takeplace flow-independently in different directions. For example, a floatspace may be filled with fluid and emptied, so that upward-lifting ordownward-drifting forces are reversed.

The fact that the relocatable elements can be arrested, such as bymagnets, electromagnets 9 or electromagnetically or hydraulically orpneumatically actuated fixing mechanisms, allows positioning with littlemovement in a storage reservoir.

The relocatable elements are preferably guided or conducted. This allowsthe elements to move on a path, so that collisions are ruled out andpositioning points are found more easily, for example by joiningelements.

Further gain is obtained from forming the channels in a matrix (FIG. 3)or partial matrix, so that joining elements can join with every otherjoining element or positioning points of a number of relocatableelements are positioned.

The fact that the channels or guides are provided with a slope 42, 43,44, 46, 47, 48, 49, 50, 51 allows upward-lifting forces,downward-drifting forces or gravitational force also to be used asdrives in a movement along a path.

It is also beneficial that relocatable elements 1, 2, 3, 4, 39, 40, 41,49, 50, 51 can be joined. Provision on standby at an appropriatetemperature, for example from a storage reservoir, or theinterconnection of circulating systems or the docking of operatingdevices onto circulating systems are possible as a result.

With the aid of devices by which relocatable elements are coupled, suchas with magnets, electromagnets 10, 11, 13, 14 or final controlelements, such as cable pulls 20, 21 with and without a clampingmechanism, driving forces can be transmitted or relocatable elements canbe exchanged or elements can be separated, whereby cost-effectivenessand versatility are achieved.

Also contributing to this is the fact that the coupling can be changed,such as that it can be ended or can be exchanged.

It is helpful that connections to relocatable elements or therelocatable element itself or separated area 12 are flexible, such assilicone, woven fabric, sheet-material, mats, tubes or composites. Thison the one hand allows a lighter type of construction to be achieved,with compliance at the same time, whereby changes in weight have littleinfluence on the balancing. Relocatable insulations can be easilyproduced from flexible composites.

In the case of very thin flexible lines and small flows, theconductability is maintained according to the invention by the flexibleparts being kept dimensionally stable, such as by inserts being wires orstrips.

As a consequence of the fact that the relocatable elements arepositioned dependent on sensor values, such as temperatures, of thetemperature space, the supplied temperature, the discharged temperature,the position in the heating component, such as the pressure of the mediaor level of the media, or position-determining sensors, such ascontacts, magnetic contacts or codings, the uses are now discussed. Inthis respect, the relocatable elements offer the advantage that only fewsensors are required, since they are exchangeable and/or relocatable.This allows different media and states of media to be measured at manylocations.

With the aid of relocatable sensors 8, in particular temperaturesensors, pressure sensors and/or flow sensors, most measurementsoccurring in the heating system can be performed with few sensors.Furthermore, as a result, measurements can be extended to circulatingsystems where this was previously not cost-effective.

1. A heating component with stored media, comprising: a containercontaining a medium; and at least one relocatable element beingrelocatable independently of a density of the medium in said container,said relocatable element provided for a heat exchange inside the heatingcomponent, without a heat exchanger or with a heat exchanger in aseparate area, or outside the heating component, the medium selectedfrom the group consisting of a storage medium and a heat transfermedium.
 2. The heating component according to claim 1, wherein saidrelocatable element is a charging and provision-on-standby device. 3.The heating component according to claim 2, wherein said charging andprovision-on-standby device is selected from the group consisting of astandby device, a flow conduction device and a flow deflecting device.4. The heating component according to claim 1, wherein said relocatableelement is a heat-exchanging unit selected from the group consisting ofa storage heat exchanger, a heat exchanger and a heat conductor.
 5. Theheating component according to claim 1, wherein said relocatable elementis an insulating or conducting partition selected from the groupconsisting of a curtain, a partition and a temperature space.
 6. Theheating component according to claim 1, wherein said relocatable elementis a relocatable part of a device selected from the group consisting ofsensors, joining elements and lines.
 7. The heating component accordingto claim 1, further comprising at least one media drive for initiatingthe repositioning of said relocatable element.
 8. The heating componentaccording to claim 1, wherein a drive for repositioning said relocatableelement takes place indirectly.
 9. The heating component according toclaim 8, wherein said drive for repositioning said relocatable elementtakes place by media flow or changing levels of the media.
 10. Theheating component according to claim 9, wherein said relocatable elementhas a baffle surface area or a baffle body for assisting in aflow-driven relocation.
 11. The heating component according to claim 9,wherein: said relocatable element contains a line with joining elements,and a flow is directed, such that said joining elements of said line orsaid line can rotate and/or pivot and/or tilt, or in each case a joiningelement of a number of differently directed joining elements isreleased.
 12. The heating component according to claim 7, furthercomprising: a separated area disposed in said container for a medialevel drive; and said relocatable element having at least one furtherelement selected from the group consisting of floats and baffleelements, and being relocated dependent on a level of the media or aflow created when a level of the media is changed.
 13. The heatingcomponent according to claim 1, further comprising a separated areadisposed in said container, separated from the media, and selected fromthe group consisting of a sleeve, a tube and a pipe.
 14. The heatingcomponent according to claim 13, wherein said separated area is filledwith a further medium.
 15. The heating component according to claim 12,wherein said separated area is flowed through.
 16. The heating componentaccording to claim 12, wherein said relocatable element is one of aplurality of relocatable elements disposed in said separated area. 17.The heating component according to claim 12, wherein said relocatableelement is one of a plurality of relocatable elements includingsensitive relocatable elements selected from the group consisting ofwater-sensitive elements, pressure-sensitive elements, sensors,arresting drives, drives, and final control elements, said sensitiverelocatable elements disposed in said separated area.
 18. The heatingcomponent according to claim 1, wherein said relocatable element is oneof a plurality of relocatable elements that are balanced, and can besuspended in equilibrium or moved with a defined preferential direction.19. The heating component according to claim 18, wherein saidrelocatable elements contain one of floats and suspended devices. 20.The heating component according to claim 19, wherein the definedpreferential direction can be changed by said floats which can bechanged by upward lift or downward drift or said suspended devices whichcan be changed by upward lift or downward drift.
 21. The heatingcomponent according to claim 1, further comprising an arresting deviceselected from the group consisting of magnets and electromagnets forarresting said relocatable element.
 22. The heating component accordingto claim 1, wherein said relocatable element is one of a plurality ofrelocatable elements having guided paths and can be joined to eachother.
 23. The heating component according to claim 22, wherein saidguided paths are disposed in a matrix or partial matrix form.
 24. Theheating component according to claim 22, wherein said guided paths havea slope.
 25. The heating component according to claim 1, wherein saidrelocatable element is one of a plurality of relocatable elements thatcan be joined to each other.
 26. The heating component according toclaim 1, further comprising magnets; and wherein said relocatableelement is one of a plurality of relocatable elements and can be coupledby said magnets.
 27. The heating component according to claim 26,wherein said magnets are electromagnets.
 28. The heating componentaccording to claim 26, wherein said coupling can be changed by beingended or exchanged.
 29. The heating component according to claim 12,wherein said relocatable element is one of a plurality of relocatableand connections to said relocatable elements or said separated area areflexible connections made from a material selected from the groupconsisting of silicone, woven fabric, mats and tubes.
 30. The heatingcomponent according to claim 29, wherein said flexible connections arekept dimensionally stable and include one of wires and strips.
 31. Theheating component according to claim 1, wherein said relocatable elementis one of a plurality of relocatable elements that are positioneddependent on sensor values, such as temperatures or positions in theheating component.
 32. The heating component according to claim 1,wherein said relocatable element includes a plurality of relocatablesensors.
 33. The heating component according to claim 1, wherein saidrelocatable sensors are selected from the group consisting oftemperature sensors, pressure sensors and flow sensors.
 34. The heatingcomponent according to claim 1, wherein said container is selected fromthe group consisting of fluid storage reservoirs, storage heatexchangers and storage reservoirs.
 35. The heating component accordingto claim 7, wherein said media drive is selected from the groupconsisting of a fan and a pump.
 36. A method for operating a heatingcomponent having stored media, a container containing a medium, andrelocatable elements being relocatable independently of a density of themedium in the container, which comprises performing at least one of thefollowing steps in the heating component: producing a bypass; admixingthe media; interconnecting media flows and/or returns; interconnectingat least one operating device; performing a distribution function;performing a diverting function; and providing on standby at anappropriate temperature a heat transfer being performed with at leastone other of the above mentioned steps.
 37. A method for operating aheating component having stored media, a container containing a medium,and relocatable elements being relocatable independently of a density ofthe medium in the container, which comprises performing at least one ofthe following steps in the heating component: producing a bypass;admixing the media; providing on standby at an appropriate temperature aheat transfer; interconnecting media flows and/or returns;interconnecting at least one operating device; performing a distributionfunction; and performing a diverting function.
 38. A method of operatinga heating component, which comprises the step of: providing the heatingcomponent according to claim 1 for interventions effecting closed-loopor open-loop control in a heating systems, including for interconnectionof a media exchange system or charging and provision on standby.